{37:4} Non est sanitas in carne mea a facie iræ tuæ: non est pax ossibus meis a facie peccatorum meorum. {37:4} There is no health in my flesh before the face of your wrath. There is no peace for my bones before the face of my sins.

{37:7} Miser factus sum, et curvatus sum usque in finem: tota die contristatus ingrediebar. {37:7} I have become miserable, and I have been bent down, even to the end. I have walked with contrition all day long.

{37:8} Quoniam lumbi mei impleti sunt illusionibus: et non est sanitas in carne mea. {37:8} For my loins have been filled with illusions, and there is no health in my flesh.

{37:9} Afflictus sum, et humiliatus sum nimis: rugiebam a gemitu cordis mei. {37:9} I have been afflicted and greatly humbled. I bellowed from the groaning of my heart.

{37:10} Domine, ante te omne desiderium meum: et gemitus meus a te non est absconditus. {37:10} O Lord, all my desire is before you, and my groaning before you has not been hidden.

~ The verb for ‘lumen oculorum meorum’ is the same as the verb for the previous phrase, ‘dereliquit me virtus mea.’ This grammatical arrangement is common in Biblical Latin. The word ‘ipsum’ is nominative singular neuter, just as lumen is nominative singular neuter; therefore, ipsum refers to ‘lumen.’

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